I recently changed my meter over to a OneTouch Ultra Smart. My old meter
was the OneTouch Profile. I had a lot of test strips left but didn't want
to wait until I used them to change. (Just started insulin and liked the
smaller blood sample requirement of the Ultra Smart. Wanted to start my
insulin recording on this meter, not the old one.) So anyway I've thought
about seeing if anyone would want these strips instead of just throwing them
away. I have four (4) unopened boxes (of 50, total of 200 strips) of the
OneTouch strips for the Basic, Profile and OneTouch II meters. They are
still sealed with the plastic sticker on the box. Each box does have some
remnant of the pharmacy sticker on the front of it once I pulled the sticker
off but otherwise the box is in new condition. All four boxes come from lot
235418A and are dated to expire 10/2005.
I'm really not sure what a fair price would be but I just did some searching
of the Internet and see these boxes offered at $34.99. I was thinking that
I really just want someone to use them and just covering part of the cost of
my new meter (cost me $90) would be enough to make me happy. So if anyone
is interested I'm starting an offer of $15 for one box plus postage (I think
you could probably mail something like that in a small box for maybe $4 or
so? Or $25 plus postage for two. Or if someone just wants to take all four
off my hands, making it simple for me how about $50 for all four plus
postage?
In case I've overestimated what they should go for please feel free to send
me whatever offer you would like. If I end up with any left over I'll go
through any other offers and figure out what I want to do with them.
Also any other ideas are welcome. Right now I can't figure out anything
else to do with them other than just toss them and I hate to do that if it
would help out anyone else.
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Szaki - 07 Jan 2005 17:10 GMT
List it on Ebay. Test strips are given free, so as the meter if some one has
insurance.
I switched 6 months ago, to the One Touch .
JS
>I recently changed my meter over to a OneTouch Ultra Smart. My old meter
>was the OneTouch Profile. I had a lot of test strips left but didn't want
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Charly Coughran - 07 Jan 2005 17:36 GMT
Even better, call your local ADA, JDF, pumper's club, or your endo or
primary physician. Any of those are likely to know of a patient
without insurance or resources for whom the strips would be a god
send.

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> List it on Ebay. Test strips are given free, so as the meter if some
> one has insurance.
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Tiger Lily - 07 Jan 2005 18:24 GMT
my endo has a 'samples' table that the patients take what they want from
this table...... and we leave what we don't use at this table as well
then there is never any waste of strips/lancets/syringes/whatever
kate

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> Even better, call your local ADA, JDF, pumper's club, or your endo or
> primary physician. Any of those are likely to know of a patient
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Anthony Marsh - 10 Jan 2005 00:52 GMT
> I recently changed my meter over to a OneTouch Ultra Smart. My old meter
> was the OneTouch Profile. I had a lot of test strips left but didn't want
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> You can reply here or just use the email address you see for me to reply
> privately.
I just saw the ad in the newspaper today for the Ultra plus using the
$30 off coupon which will make the meter free. I doubt if I could use
the old style strips, but I would encourage others to work out trades
since people often change the brand they use and just throwing away the
old test strips would be such a waste.
BDraws@webtv.net - 12 Jan 2005 04:04 GMT
Be sure you check the rebate coupon inside the box. I purchased a
OneTouch UltraSmart using a $30.00 off coupon and a $49.99 sale price.
But when I looked at the rebate coupon inside of the box, it had already
expired on 12/31/04.
Anthony Marsh - 19 Jan 2005 03:29 GMT
> Be sure you check the rebate coupon inside the box. I purchased a
> OneTouch UltraSmart using a $30.00 off coupon and a $49.99 sale price.
> But when I looked at the rebate coupon inside of the box, it had already
> expired on 12/31/04.
Yup, or missing all together. A call to Lifescan and also sending them
e-mail and they mailed me 2 rebate coupons a few days later.
odie_34_2007 - 05 Jan 2006 23:36 GMT
if you still have the one touch ultra test strips please let me know at
odie_34_2007at yahoo dot com
>I recently changed my meter over to a OneTouch Ultra Smart. My old meter
>was the OneTouch Profile. I had a lot of test strips left but didn't want
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>You can reply here or just use the email address you see for me to reply
>privately.